Edward Kaprov

Photographer / Based in israel

Edward Kaprov, was born (1975) and grew up in Soviet Union. He came to Israel in the 1992. A year after his motherland, along with its Utopia, disappeared from the world maps and seized to exist "Wandering... read on

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Edward Kaprov, was born (1975) and grew up in Soviet Union.
He came to Israel in the 1992. A year after his motherland, along with its Utopia, disappeared from the world maps and seized to exist

"Wandering back and forth from "The Land of Patriarchs" to his Motherland, he realized post factum that in all issues he is dealing with reflects nostalgia of high Ideas, which deny real circumstances."

Sense 1999, Kaprov's art based on documentary photography. He spares no effort and fears no hardships to get his story told in his photographs.

He is focuses on the human aspects of political, social and cultural issues. Kaprovâ€™s photographs are fully charged by emotion and expressions. The human aspect plays a dominant role in Kaprovâ€™s photographs.

He is working freelancewith known magazines at Israel and abroad such, 'National Geographic', 'Geo', 'Masa Aher', 'Menta', "Kommersant',. Also for weekly magazine extensions like 'G' Globes, '7Days'Yedioth Ahronoth, 'Musaf' Haaretz and etc. Working with NGOs

Most important projects

'Route 60' - 2010-2013 - Route between the past to present, route that connect and divide, route that beside two parallel worlds that never meet...
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'The step from Edge' - 2009 - on going - along the borders of small Jewish state
'The Duty' - 2000 - 2012 - The intimate look at Israeli military reserve forces
'Theportraitofthesociety' 2005-2014- learning Israel through shooting portraits
'People Live Here' - Chechnya aftermath project - 2006
'Color of Protest' - 2005 -Pulling out from Gaza Strip
'Beslan Massacre' - 2004 - Tragedy at the North Caucasus(Russia) TV Journalist for Israeli Channel 2
'Crossing Siberia' -2002 - hundreds of kilometers by foot across the barren taiga region, through Stalinâ€™s abandoned Gulags.